2 Samuel 15:20

World English Bible (2000)

Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you."

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  • 1 Sam 23:13 : 13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.
  • 2 Sam 2:6 : 6 Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
  • Heb 11:37-38 : 37 They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
  • 2 Tim 1:16-18 : 16 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, 17 but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me 18 (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
  • Ps 25:10 : 10 All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
  • Ps 56:8 : 8 You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren't they in your book?
  • Ps 57:3 : 3 He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
  • Ps 59:15 : 15 They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.
  • Ps 61:7 : 7 He shall be enthroned in God's presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
  • Ps 85:10 : 10 Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
  • Ps 89:14 : 14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
  • Prov 14:22 : 22 Don't they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.
  • Amos 8:12 : 12 They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh, and will not find it.

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  • 2 Sam 15:18-19
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    85%

    18 All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

    19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.

  • 2 Sam 15:21-22
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    78%

    21 Ittai answered the king, and said, "As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall is, whether for death or for life, even there also will your servant be."

    22 David said to Ittai, "Go and pass over." Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him.

  • 2 Sam 19:7
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    7 Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now."

  • 2 Sam 19:36-38
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    36 Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

    37 Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you."

    38 The king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you require of me, that I will do for you."

  • 2 Sam 19:12
    75%

    12 You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?'

  • 1 Sam 29:10
    74%

    10 Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning, and have light, depart."

  • 2 Sam 19:25
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    25 It happened, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, "Why didn't you go with me, Mephibosheth?"

  • 1 Sam 20:29
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    29 He said, 'Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.' Therefore he has not come to the king's table."

  • 2 Sam 15:33-35
    3 verses
    74%

    33 David said to him, "If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me;

    34 but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, 'I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.'

    35 Don't you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore it shall be, that whatever thing you shall hear out of the king's house, you shall tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

  • Num 10:31-32
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    31 He said, "Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.

    32 It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you."

  • 1 Sam 24:19
    73%

    19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me this day.

  • 1 Sam 29:6-8
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    6 Then Achish called David, and said to him, "As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don't favor you.

    7 Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines."

    8 David said to Achish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"

  • 1 Kgs 2:6-7
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    6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

    7 But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

  • 2 Sam 16:17
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    17 Absalom said to Hushai, "Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn't you go with your friend?"

  • 1 Sam 30:15
    72%

    15 David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this troop?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop."

  • 2 Sam 19:19
    72%

    19 He said to the king, "Don't let my lord impute iniquity to me, neither do you remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

  • 1 Sam 20:13-14
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    72%

    13 Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.

    14 You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving kindness of Yahweh, that I not die;

  • 2 Sam 19:15
    72%

    15 So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.

  • 1 Sam 26:19
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    19 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'

  • 2 Sam 18:2-3
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    72%

    2 David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, "I will surely go forth with you myself also."

    3 But the people said, "You shall not go forth; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city."

  • 1 Sam 20:8
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    8 Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?"

  • 2 Sam 15:27-28
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    72%

    27 The king said also to Zadok the priest, "Aren't you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.

    28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."

  • 2 Sam 15:9
    72%

    9 The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he arose, and went to Hebron.

  • Josh 2:12
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    12 Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token;

  • 2 Sam 11:12
    72%

    12 David said to Uriah, "Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next day.

  • 2 Kgs 6:3
    72%

    3 One said, "Please be pleased to go with your servants." He answered, "I will go."

  • 2 Sam 2:6
    72%

    6 Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.

  • 1 Sam 20:19
    72%

    19 When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly, and come to the place where you did hide yourself when the business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    71%

    23 Then David said, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

  • 1 Sam 25:8
    71%

    8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore, let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.'"

  • 2 Sam 14:8
    71%

    8 The king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you."

  • 2 Sam 13:26
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    26 Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us." The king said to him, "Why should he go with you?"

  • 1 Sam 25:12
    71%

    12 So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.

  • 1 Sam 22:3
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    3 David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me."

  • 2 Sam 19:22
    71%

    22 David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries to me? Shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? For don't I know that I am this day king over Israel?"

  • 2 Sam 19:33
    71%

    33 The king said to Barzillai, "Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem."

  • 1 Sam 10:2
    71%

    2 When you have departed from me today, then you shall find two men by Rachel's tomb, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will tell you, 'The donkeys which you went to seek have been found; and behold, your father has stopped caring about the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, "What shall I do for my son?"'